Bill Murray and Mitch Glazer have been Hollywood buds for a long time, but their collaborations are decidedly mixed. Glazer wrote Scrooged, which is considered a holiday classic and rightly so. But he also directed Passion Play, which is pretty awful. Hopefully for their next team-up, the musical comedy Rock the Kasbah, things will turn out much better.
The first trailer for the film has been released, and at the very least it looks like something fans of Murray will love. Others may think it looks like a modern day Ishtar. Glazer wrote the screenplay with Barry Levinson (Rain Man) directing, and the story centers on a down-on-his-luck rock music manager in Afghanistan who is left behind by his sole remaining client. Things begin to look up when he discovers a young woman with an extraordinary voice and convinces her to enter in their version of American Idol.
Also starring Kate Hudson, Bruce Willis, Scott Caan, Zooey Deschanel, and Danny McBride, Rock the Kasbah opens October 23rd.
